Ive recently moved to another QE Lead role and the managers are telling me that I can direct and have autonomy as much as possible but tbh, I dont know where to start (not that ive never been in this role before but guidance would be good). A bit of background of where the company is already in:
- Hired QE’s before me without much automation experience (thats fine with me as Im happy to mentor and coach but obviously requires hand-holding more)
- No quality strategy so far (I’m happy to create one such as increasing automation test coverage, involving QE’s on earlier phases, etc)
- Devs have built a test framework but its something that an inexperienced QE would have difficulty picking up (I still want devs to get involved and not alienate them as i want them to continue having a testing/quality mindset)
I’m more of a hands-on guy and want to give autonomy to my team too but them having not much experience, It would be hard to delegate stuff and really spend time with them pairing and them learning best practices, etc.
Also, the framework is too dev-centric and i want to simplify it (its a bit overkill for a test automation) but i dont want to create friction with devs who have built it.
Im having difficulty finding the balance between operations/bau stuff and guiding the new QE’s and the strategic/innovation stuff. Id like to present something concrete to the mgmt team too (maybe identifying biggest pain points, quick wins, etc)
Help?